# PREMIER CHEMICAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30736`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0064
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JANA RENEE BRYANT (settlement)
## Summary

SUPERFUND EMERGENCY REMOVAL AT SITE IN GARY, IN.  SMALL      WAREHOUSE-LIKE FACILITY WITH APPROXIMATELY 40 DRUMS OF       UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE.  SOME POTENTIALLY FLAMMABLE ITEMS AND     LITTLE OR NO SITE SECURITY.                                  THIS IS A CLOSED AND UNUSED CHEMICAL FACILITY IN THE CITY OF GARY, INDIANA.  THE OWNER, MS JANA R. BRYANT, INHERITED THE  SITE FROM HER FATHER (THE PREVIOUS OWNER/OPERATOR) WHO HAD   OPERATED A CHEMICAL PRODUCTION ACTIVITY FOR A NUMBER OF      YEARS, AND THEN SHUT DOWN.  MS. BRYANT IS THE ONLY PRP.      MS. BRYANT PROVED TO BE INITIALLY DIFFICULT TO CONTACT AND   TO DISCUSS THE SITE WITH.  SHE VERBALLY AND LATER, IN        WRITING, COMMITTED TO PERFORMING A CLEAN UP.(THE HAZARDOUS   MATERIAL, OF CONCERN ARE TRICHLOROPHY, HYDROCHORIC ACID AND  OTHER SOLVENTS).  HOWEVER, NO ACTION WAS TAKEN AND SHE DID   NOT SIGN AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT THAT WAS SENT TO HER IN MAY, 1998.  IN JULY, 1998, EPA ISSUED A UNILATERAL    ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (UAO).  SUBSEQUENTLY, MS. BRYANT MET    WITH EPA AND AGREED TO ARRANGE FOR A REMOVAL.  EPA IS        AWAITING FINALIZATION OF THIS REMOVAL, BUT IS PREPARED TO    PERFORM IT WITH CERCLA MONIES.

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